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Submission + - TorChat client for iOS approved by Apple (apple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 24, 2012 @05:53PM

An anonymous reader writes: I know that there are a lot of people waiting for TorChat on their iPhone, so i just wanted to let you know that there is a client which was approved by Apple on the App Store called "iTorChat".

Submission + - Minecraft Ported To The Raspberry Pi 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 24, 2012 @05:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: The amusing “but does it run Crysis?” question has a cousin: “but does it run Minecraft?” The makers of Raspberry Pi can now officially say that yes, yes it does. Called Minecraft: Pi Edition, the latest flavor of the popular game carries “a revised feature set” and “support for several programming languages,” so you can code directly into Minecraft before or after you start playing. That means you can build structures in the traditional Minecraft way, but you can also break open the code and use a programming language to manipulate things in the game world.

Submission + - The Internet has transformed modern divorce (nytimes.com)

Submitted by stern on Saturday November 24, 2012 @04:49PM

stern writes: The internet may be contributing to divorces (thanks, Facebook!) but it's also reducing the pain, especially the bitter fighting associated with joint custody. Calendars are now much easier to coordinate, and if one parent denies a court-ordered phone call to another, there's no way to hide the fact that the call didn't happen. Because of these and other technologies, divorce has changed radically in the last ten years.

Submission + - The White Noise of Smell (livescience.com)

Submitted by Frosty Piss on Saturday November 24, 2012 @04:11PM

Frosty Piss writes: Scientists have discovered a new smell, but you may have to go to a laboratory to experience it yourself. The smell is dubbed "olfactory white," because it is the nasal equivalent of white noise, researchers report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Just as white noise is a mixture of many different sound frequencies and white light is a mixture of many different wavelengths, olfactory white is a mixture of many different smells. In a series of experiments, they exposed participants to hundreds of equally mixed smells, and what they discovered is that our brains treat smells as a single unit, not as a mixture of compounds to break down, analyze and put back together again.. The web site LiveScience talks about it here.

Submission + - BlackBerry 10: AWESOME. If the hardware matches it, RIM jobs are safe (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 24, 2012 @03:09PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Register has a BlackBerry 10 preview up. "BlackBerry users have a love-hate relationship with their phones. The devices were often forced upon users rather than chosen. At the same time, the handhelds were the most usable and useful communications gadgets you could put in your pocket.", however for a publication with an open pro-Microsoft bias, the review is surprisingly positive and it goes on to look at BB10's hub feature, "utilitarian" and efficient compared to Windows Phones which shows "style and novelty" whilst being "a bit limiting", BlackBerry's feature may actually improve the system rather than detracting. With BlackBerry providing a QT environment (compatible with Sailfish we discussed earlier) and having managed to maintain BB's 3rd place in the Mobile OS market, it looks like there may be a chance of a real three way competition between QT, Android and iOS in the mobile market.

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